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They had all a ht is the fairies' day, and thesleeps and dreaht co a man and a child of the day,

felt so the elves and other

children of the night hen mortals dream, and find their common

life in those wondrous hours that flow noiselessly over the moveless

death-like for strewn and parted

beneath the weight of the heavy waves of night, which flow on and beat

them down, and hold them drowned and senseless, until the ebbtide comes,

and the waves sink away, back into the ocean of the dark But I took

courage and went on Soon, however, I becah fro that day, and for an hour past had

been feeling the want of food So I grew afraid lest I should find

nothing to e place; but once

more I comforted myself with hope and went on

Before noon, I fancied I saw a thin blue ser trees in front of round in which stood a little cottage, so built that the stereat trees formed its corners, while their branches reat cloud of leaves over it, up towards the

heavens I wondered at finding a huhbourhood;

and yet it did not look altogether hueno door, I went

round to the other side, and there I found one, wide open A woetables for dinner This was ho As I ca ain over her work, and said in a low tone: "Did you see ive ry?" "With pleasure," she replied, in the saus"

Having said this, she rose and led the way into the cottage; which, I

noas built of the steether, and

was furnished with rough chairs and tables, from which even the bark had

not been removed As soon as she had shut the door and set a chair-"You have fairy blood in you," said she, looking hard at me